Startup Summit: dates, who attends, and how founders get in
A hybrid meeting point for startups, investors and major brands, with three days of content, connections and opportunities for innovation.
The essentials from the organiser's own pages: when, where, how big, and how founders get in. Speakers, investor lists and past editions are on the official site.
- Next edition
- Dates not yet announced
- Where
- CentroSul, Florianópolis, Brazil
- Format
- hybrid
- Startup pass
- For a chance to pitch on the main stage, startups applied to the Prêmio Sebrae Startups and passed through five evaluation phases; applications for the 2026 edition are closed. General admission was through event tickets; 2026 sales are closed, and no startup booth price was published in the sources reviewed. source
- Prêmio Sebrae Startups
- R$ 950 mil total prize money; R$ 250 mil for the national winner (2026) source
- Cadence
- Annual, in August (recent editions)
Next edition
The organiser has not published dates for the next edition; historically it annual, in August (recent editions). We re-check weekly and list dates only when the organiser prints them with a year.
How founders get in
| Startup programme | For a chance to pitch on the main stage, startups applied to the Prêmio Sebrae Startups and passed through five evaluation phases; applications for the 2026 edition are closed. General admission was through event tickets; 2026 sales are closed, and no startup booth price was published in the sources reviewed. source |
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Prêmio Sebrae Startups
| Prize | R$ 950 mil total prize money; R$ 250 mil for the national winner (2026) source |
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Meeting investors there
Founders meet investors through curated matchmaking and structured investment rounds, alongside networking with VCs and CVCs. source
| Investors attending | 152 investors (2025) source |
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Before you go: the hub's cold email to VCs playbook covers the pre-event outreach that fills a meeting calendar, and Causo matches your stage and thesis to the funds in its database so you know who to ask for a meeting.
Official links and socials
Prepare for it
- How to cold email VCs — book the meetings before you land.
- The 12-slide seed deck — what to have ready when a partner says "send me the deck".
- Pitch Deck Roaster — a slide-by-slide pass before you submit to Prêmio Sebrae Startups.
- Accelerator deadlines — the application windows that open around the event.
Sources
Every fact above was read from one of these official pages on Oct 8, 2026:
- startupsummit.com.br
- startupsummit.com.br/expositores
- hotsite.blueticket.com.br/startup-summit-2026/269
- blueticket.com.br/evento/40183/startup-summit-2026
- online.startupsummit.com.br
- patrocinio.startupsummit.com.br
- acate.com.br/agenda-de-eventos/startup-summit-2026
- redeinovacao.floripa.br/en/startup-summit-2026-plans-to-expand-international-delegation-presence-and-opens-ticket-sales